Lebanon controlled the match, was putting us on our heels. We couldn't stop them.

Our partnership with the 2006 Chicago Games will include cross-promotional opportunities, discounts for HRC members to participate as athletes and cultural performers, and cooperative events both in advance and during the Gay Games. We're very excited at this opportunity and encourage others to join us in welcoming the world to Chicago this July.

Our partnership with the 2006 Chicago Games will include cross-promotional opportunities, discounts for HRC members to participate as athletes and cultural performers, and cooperative events both in advance and during the Gay Games, ... We're very excited at this opportunity and encourage others to join us in welcoming the world to Chicago this July.

I thought that defensive switch really changed the match.

There are short-term questions to be sure -- the impact of changes in residential housing markets and the prospects for inflation are two -- but, overall, the economy in 2006 seems likely to be very well-behaved.

We may be entering a period in which policy changes are even more dependent than they have been on current readings of the economy, with all the uncertainty such readings can bring.